Art & Literature

Taller Puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican arts center in Philadelphia, will commemorate its 30th anniversary with a new exhibit called Isla del Burén: The Taíno and their Predecessors in Puerto Rico. This is the first art exhibition of the Puerto Rican Taíno (The Taíno were the dominant culture in the Caribbean in pre-Columbian times) to be shown in North America.

Dance Cuba: Dreams of Flight is an epic that sweeps across modern US-Cuban history as it intertwines riveting personal stories that are as steeped in romance, tragedy and drama as the great ballets.

On Friday, Sept. 17, 2004 at 7:30 p.m. MECA will present Colombian poet Carlos Hugo Gamboa M. The evening will also include a classical guitar performance by Rodrigo Gamboa, Carlos Hugo's son.

Teatro Visión, a San José-based Chicano theater company, announced it will celebrate its 20th anniversary this 2004-2005 season with two audience favorites -- the heartwarming comedy, Real Women Have Curves, and the hard-hitting contemporary drama, Santos & Santos.

Three Cuban-American Miami natives—all students at NYU’s Tisch School of Dramatic Arts--will make their New York off-Broadway stage debuted on August 13th, at 9:30 p.m., at the Eighth Annual New York International Fringe Festival in A Place Without Seasons, a full-length drama written by Marco Ramirez.

Hip hop fans across the country will have the opportunity to see today’s top Latino hip hop artists perform together in the Latino Kings of Hip Hop Tour. The tour begins July 28, 2004 and will be headlined by multi-platinum artist Fat Joe along with his group, The Terror Squad, and will include artists Frankie J, Play-N-Skillz and Tony Sunshine.

After a successful, three-year Off-Off Broadway run, a Latino Flavored Production, reaches new heights in a limited run on Off-Broadway this summer. An honest and funny look at what it means to be Latina in America, it explores the stories of six diverse women growing up bi-lingual, bi-cultural and proud to declare YO SOY LATINA!